Nanxun celebrity 丨 Liu Chenggan

Liu Chenggan (1881-1963) Character Hanyi, Zhenyi, Wuxing Nanxun people. Guangxu Thirty-one Years (1905) Xiucai. His grandfather, Liu Yong, was the head of the "Four Elephants" of Nanxun. His father, Liu Jinzao (Guangxu Jia Wuke Jinshi), and Gang's eldest brother Liu Anlan (劉安蘭無後), took the eldest son Liu Chenggan as the heir to the long house, and the name of the hall was honored.

Liu Chenggan inherited the testament of his stepfather Liu Anlan and searched for major events. According to Zhou Qingyun's "Xun Ya Peng Collection", he asked the celebrities Miao Quansun and Dong Zhijing to study and proofread, and compiled 28 volumes of the "Rare Book Collection", which was not published. When the Japanese Jingjiatang Bunko purchased the Huzhou Luxinyuan "Li Song Lou" collection of books, it became famous for a while. Collecting ancient books in China has become a fashion for Japanese sinologists, who have come to China to snap up ancient books. Liu Chenggan resolutely used heavy money to collect rare books of Song Yuanming and precious orphan books, with as many as 12,000 or 3,000 kinds of books before and after, 180,000 volumes of about 600,000 volumes, including many secret books, costing 300,000 yuan. Miao Quansun said in the "Preface to the Jiayetang Series": "The collectors have produced many books, and all of them have returned to them, and they have collected them on the sea." Yongdong Lu's "Baojing Lou", Dushan Mo's "Shadow Mountain Caotang", Renhe Zhu's "Jie YiLu", Fengshun Ding's "Holding Jingzhai", Taicang Miao's "Dongcang Library" and more than a dozen other books are all inserted into the Jiaye Library. He built the Jiaye Library on the side of the Liu Family Temple for 120,000 yuan, which was completed in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924). Because he first published the series of books, he submitted it to the imperial library, and donated a huge amount of money to plant trees for the Guangxu Emperor's mausoleum, and the Xuantong Emperor Puyi (Lu Runxiu ghostwriter) rewarded him with the "Qinruo Jiaye" Kowloon golden plaque, so he named "Jiaye" the name of the villa hall on Qinghai Road in Shanghai and the name of the series of books "Jiayetang Series", as well as the name of the library building built by Nanxun.

There are about 200 kinds of ancient books in the Collection of Song and Yuan Dynasties, 2,000 kinds of Ming Rare Books, 5,000 kinds of Qing Ren Collection Department, and 2,000 kinds of hand-copied correction manuscripts. There are still 43 volumes of the original Yongle Canon, and 44 copies of the Ming Jiajing Longqingjian copy, a total of 87 rare national treasures. He also spent a huge amount of money to transcribe the "Qing Shilu" and "Qing Shi Lie Biography" from the National History Museum in Beijing, which were not available to the outside world. In addition, Weng Qinxi's hand-compiled "Siku Quanshu" has 150 volumes of original manuscripts, and a song carved single copy of the "Three Character Classic", which is extremely precious. It has also collected more than 1,200 kinds of 33,380 volumes of complete local chronicles in the country, which are extremely valuable literary and historical materials. In addition, Liu Chenggan also engraved a large number of printed books. After Liu Chenggan's family fell in the middle of the road, he sold a large number of ancient books in Jiayetang, using his own words: "Self gain, self lose," not without regret, he violated his promise of "not hiding in vain, but also seeking to pass it on forever.". After the liberation of Nanxun in 1949, Zhou Enlai ordered the garrison to protect it. Liu Chenggan dedicated more than 110,000 books to the Jiaye Library and its retained books, more than 20,000 self-engraved books, and more than 30,000 ancient book engravings, all of which were donated to the state, which was received by the Zhejiang Provincial Library, and is now a key cultural relics protection unit in Zhejiang Province together with Xiaolianzhuang.

Lu Xun once went to Jiayetang on Qinghai Road in Shanghai to buy books, and in his letter to Yang Jiyun, he had this to say about Liu Chenggan: "Liu Hanyi heard that he had gone to Beijing, and when he saw the forbidden books he had engraved, it was really disorganized, and there were not many useful books. But some books are not so stupid that the public cannot be engraved, so he is not a character of no benefit" (Selected Letters of Lu Xun's Miscellaneous Writings). Lu Xun also said: "Liu Hanyi is very sympathetic to the widow of The Ming Dynasty, and he is also quite dissatisfied with the text prison of the early Qing Dynasty, but the strange thing is that his own article is full of the tone of the former Qing widow. "Exposed his psychological contradictions, he not only sympathized with the late Ming Dynasty widows, dissatisfied with the early Qing Dynasty's literary prison, but also willing to be the qing Dynasty's widows, and also made a high price to buy the forbidden books of the early Qing Dynasty's literary prisons, engraved and passed on to the world, and it was a bit silly. Liu Chenggan was indeed the old man who left himself behind in the Qing Dynasty, and the Xuantong Emperor Puyi mentioned it in his book "The First Half of My Life"" On March 1, 1934, I was in the northeast for the puppet emperor of Manchuria, and the widows of various places in Guannei, such as Liu Chenggan, sent congratulatory seals. "Liu Chenggan believed that his father Liu Jinzao was a former Qing jinshi, and his stepfather Liu Zihui was a man, and he was the last Xiucai, so he never forgot the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China had long been established, but he still used the Xuantong era name to communicate with the widows and widows, and as a result, he was pinched into letters, colluded with judicial personnel and behind-the-scenes instigators, and extorted more than 100,000 yuan from him on the charge of restoration and rebellion. Liu Chenggan died in Shanghai in 1963 at the age of 83.

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